10 SIGNS IT'S TIME TO GET HELP FOR DEPRESSION *
* by Therese Borchard, Health Advocate- Hopelessness Comment: I can relate.
- Inability to concentrate Ditto
- Unexplained aches & pains Ditto
- Apathy concerning the things you liked to do Ditto
- Alcohol or drug abuse
- Changes in sleep habits Ditto
- Changes in appetite & eating Ditto
- Irritability, agitation, & moodiness Ditto
- Feelings of worthlessness & guilt Ditto
- Thoughts of death, suicide, or self-harm
YOUR FAMILY TREE
"The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come." Steve Farrar, Men's Devotional Bible
OFFICE MOTTO MAKEOVERS *
* courtesy of Reader's Digest, April 2020
- "Nothing ruins a Friday more than the understanding that today is Tuesday."
- Feeling stressed out? Make a nice cup of hot tea & then spill it in the lap of whoever's bugging you."
- "The only thing worse than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly."
TRENDING *
courtesy of The Babylon Bee
- "Trump Says to Drink Lots of Water, Media Report He Told Everyone to Drown Themselves"
- "Dad Pretty Proud of B+ He Got on 5th Grader's Math Test"
CORONAVIRUS
I'm getting as tired of restrictions as the next person. I've been working at home for the past month. Lois has been meeting with her Tuesday morning Bible class via Zoom. We received private communion at church last Friday. We've had to postpone indefinitely a trip to visit our son Nathan, daughter-in-law Laura, grandkids Calvin & Claire in the Twin Cities. (We did get to SKYPE with them on Saturday.) Last Friday we went to church & received private communion. Yesterday we participated in worship via Facebook.
Yet I'm also skeptical at the thought of restriction being lifted or lightened. Despite calls to lift restrictions because of the progress we've made, isn't it restrictions that has slowed the rate of cases & cast doubt on earlier projections of disasters?
"Americans are willing to make sacrifices for the greater good. Those millions who have lost their jobs are beginning to rightly wonder why. Is it simply to please some Washington experts? Haven’t we already flattened the curve? Our hospitals are mostly empty. Reports on numbers of ventilators ring hollow. The price of this murky, yet undefined victory is astronomical. Especially for those who can’t pay next month’s mortgage." Gil Gutknecht, Townhall, 4/26
"But when COVID-19 begins to recede into the background and, as we draw nearer to this November’s election, we really start to take stock of all the economic, communal, and psychological devastation that litters the land, those of us who value truth, liberty, and the victims of injustice must be sure to correct the record: It is Big Government and Big Media actors, and not some virus, that are responsible for it." Jack Kerwick, Townhall, 4/26
"Surreal” is a word people have been using a lot in the past month or so under the new coronavirus realities. It can be used to touch on the terrifying and the life-endangering as well as the merely inconvenient. For many of us, life is not what it once was. Routines might be out of whack, a family might finally spend time together (whereas before, work kept people apart for long hours), or you couldn’t even be with a dying loved one at the end. And, of course, there is the all-around uncertainty. We need something to latch on to when we don’t really have words that can adequately describe what is going on. There is also the wistful thought that this may just be a bad dream we get to wake up from." Kathryn Lopez, National Review Online, 4/27
"Asked about allowing religious services outdoors, former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said it could be a good idea if proper social distancing were maintained. “I believe the first things governors will try to restart are some outdoor activities that give us a sense of normalcy. Allowing religious services to take place outdoors with proper social distancing could be a very attractive and appropriate proposal along those lines,” Gottlieb tells National Review in an email. “The target for these activities should be the beginning of May in most parts of the country, given that many regions that have been affected really haven’t started to show significant, sustained declines yet.”
COMMENTS
"Holding religious services outdoors obviously isn’t a perfect solution. There is a lot more space in small towns and suburbia than in large cities, and thunderstorms or extreme heat could cancel services. But, with the proper precautions, it still seems like a better and safer alternative than holding services indoors at greatly diminished capacity." John McCormack, Ditto
"Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, on Sunday said Americans would probably need to continue social distancing measures through the summer.
“Social distancing will be with us through the summer to really ensure that we protect one another,” Birx said in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. Dr. Birx indicated that social distancing would be strongly recommended even as states gradually lift closures on businesses." Zachary Evans, Ditto
